Useful Links

The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) involves consumer organizations, federal and state policymakers, health care purchasers, researchers, practitioners and others that influence health care delivery, quality measurement and reporting to develop, test and deploy consumer-centered quality measures.

The Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mission is to provide national leadership, in partnership with key stakeholders, to improve the physical and mental health, safety and well-being of the maternal and child health.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable.

Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. The two overarching goals of Healthy People 2010 are to increase quality and years of healthy life, and to eliminate health disparities.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey Measures Catalog provides an overview of the measures of child and adolescent mental health and mental health service use in various surveys of the NCHS data systems.

Learn methods for interpreting survey data using this excellent interactive teaching resource while the examples are from the BRFSS survey; the concepts apply to National Survey of Children’s Health and similar data.

As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of people. NCHS is a unique public resource for health information–-a critical element of public health and health policy.

Sponsored by Kaiser, State Health Facts provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states.

The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. The goal of the census is to provide the best mix of timeliness, relevancy, quality, and cost for the data collected and services provided.

The KIDS COUNT Website is a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation presenting state-by-state and national indicators of child well-being based on census and other data sources.

This chartbook examines the health of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds in every state to document how healthy our nation's children are now and how healthy they could be if we as a nation were realizing our full health potential. They have also included a calculator to calculate these differences for each state.

This report examines variations among states' child health care systems, building on the State Scorecard published by The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. Focusing on 13 performance indicators of access, quality, costs, equity, and the potential to lead healthy lives, the authors find wide variation among states, including distinct regional patterns.

Developed to follow the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, published in 2006, the State Scorecard assesses state variation across key dimensions of health system performance: access, quality, avoidable hospital use and costs, equity, and healthy lives. Follow the link above to access the report and visit the interactive statescorecard map.

Created by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance is the first-ever comprehensive means of measuring and monitoring health care outcomes, quality, access, efficiency, and equity in one report. Follow the link above to download a copy of the report.